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Cock A Doodle Do by Herman Melville

August 26, 2019 Jen Leave a comment

This week we bring you “Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Or, The Crowing of the Noble Cock Beneventano” by Herman MelvilleHerman Melville belongs to…

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“The Ransom of Red Chief” and “The Marquis and Miss Sally” by O. Henry

August 19, 2019 Jen Leave a comment

Henry worked a number of different jobs, from pharmacy to drafting, journalism, and banking. Banking, in particular, was not to…

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Feathertop by Nathaniel Hawthorne

July 24, 2019 Jen Leave a comment

Hawthorne was a Transcendentalists believing in the “inherent goodness of both people and nature.” You could think of him as…

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Two Stories by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

July 15, 2019 Jen Leave a comment

” The Big Trip Up Yonder” and “2 B R 0 2 B”. Michael Crichton, writing in The New Republic,…

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‘God Sees The Truth, But Waits’ and ‘Diary of a Lunatic’ by Leo Tolstoy

July 2, 2019 Jen Leave a comment

(Tid bit: “God Sees The Truth, But Waits” is the story that inspired Stephen King to write Shawshank Redemption!) Tolstoy…

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The Rondoli Sisters by Guy de Maupassant

June 25, 2019 Jen Leave a comment

Maupassant was a 19th century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form. He was a representative…

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Two Stories by Katherine Mansfield

June 10, 2019 Jen Leave a comment

 “The Garden Party” and “Mr. and Mrs. Dove”. Mansfield once said “Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion…

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Two Stories by Robert Barr: “The Understudy” and “Two Florentine Balconies”

June 3, 2019 Jen Leave a comment

A crime story writer during the Sherlock Holmes era, Barr wrote the first Holmes parody, “The Adventures of “Sherlaw Kombs”,…

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The Hanging Stranger and Beyond the Door by Philip K. Dick.

May 20, 2019 Jen Leave a comment

Dick was an under-rated master of Science Fiction, in which he gravitated to writing dystopian stories. His cautionary tales, often…

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The Teacher of Literature by Anton Chekhov

May 13, 2019 Jen Leave a comment

Chekhov studied to be a Dr. He once said “Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I…

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